English Catholic Penitent told “God Doesn’t Care What You Do!”

In response to the UK Catholic Bishops’ call to consider and confess environmental transgressions within the Sacrament of Reconciliation, English Catholic, Emelia Durrant, has been granted absolution. However, Ms. Durrant, 25, a shopkeeper’s assistant from Bath, was shocked when the Missionary of Mercy priest who heard her confession told her, “Don’t worry, none of this matters, God is so full of mercy he doesn’t care what you do!”

In response to Pope Francis’s environmental encyclical, Laudato si, the UK Bishops, who are historically known for their loyalty to the both doctrine and the Holy See, recently released a Laudato si coloring book. The coloring book is aimed at reducing the pain and paper required to read the Pope’s recent environmental encyclical. http://www.a-cnn.com/index.php/articles/item/2006-new-papal-encyclical-in-the-works

In building on the Bishop of Rome’s environmental drive, and as the Catholic Herald reported on Aug 28th 2015, the Bishop of Portsmouth, Philip Egan, placed his diocese on “environmental alert.” In doing so, Bishop Egan stated:

In an enviro-ecumenical™ pincer movement, on the same day that the Catholic bishop, Bishop Egan, spoke out, a Church of England bishop, Bishop Nicholas Holtam, urged his congregation to “get behind pope Francis’s Worldwide Day of Prayer for Creation,” noting:

Given the religiously-driven furore over the environment, Emelia, a good Catholic and ecumenist, was so affected that during her Examination of Conscience in preparation for her Confession on August 29, 2015, she remembered her picnic basket of the prior Sunday.

In that basket she had included plastic utensils and paper plates, rather than washable knives and forks and regular crockery. So, in a deep state of mortification, as Emelia tells A-CNN, she went into the Confessional stating:

Bless me Father for I have sinned….

I used plastic knives and forks, when metal utensils were available;

I used paper plates when I could have used regular crockery;

I turned on the hot water tank on an hour before taking a shower, when 15 minutes before would have done;

I sometimes print emails at work; and,

I do not pay the extra, optional, carbon fee when buying a plane ticket.

Emelia, who was expecting a sound spiritual thrashing by the priest, was pleasantly surprised when he stated: “Emelia, if God does not care whether you have committed a mortal sin such as adultery, why on earth would you think he cares about anything else, even the environment! Simply put, God doesn’t care. He is so full of mercy, He doesn’t care what you do! Be glad in his mercy! Do whatever you want whenever you want.”

It was only subsequently that Emelia learned that her confessor had been a Missionary of Mercy priest who had been dispatched to her Parish in preparation for The Jubilee Year of Mercy. She was so thankful to him for allaying her fears and her guilty conscience and, equally so, so happy to know that whatever she did, God didn’t care. He would love her, no matter what.